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Etymology
From in- + aureole.
Verb
inaureole (third-person singular simple present inaureoles, present participle inaureoling, simple past and past participle inaureoled)
- (transitive, literary) To give (someone) a halo; to surround (someone or something) with light.
1918, Geoffrey Bache Smith, “Glastonbury”, in A Spring Harvest, London: Erskine Macdonald, page 17:So leave we them, each head inaureoled
With the awakening spring’s young sunlight-gold.
1920, Storm Jameson, The Happy Highways, New York: Century, Book 2, Chapter 5, p. 157:The red, level rays of the sun came through the window behind him. He was a Viking in shabby tweeds, inaureoled in his hair.
1923, J. R. R. Tolkien, “Why the Man in the Moon came down too soon”, in Christopher Tolkien, editor, The Book of Lost Tales, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, published 1984, page 204:He was girt with pale gold and inaureoled
With gold about his head.
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